The increasing availability of digital images at colleges and universities has offered new opportunities for teaching and learning. In some disciplines and on some campuses, the opportunities are nothing short of transformative. In other cases, however, digital images have had only a modest impact. What are some of the factors associated with the more successful and transformative opportunities that digital images afford? For this study, we visited seven liberal arts college campuses and spoke with a variety of faculty members, librarians and information-services professionals, and other campus administrators. We learned about some of the successful collaborations across the slide library (or visual resources collection), the instructional-technology group, and the library, as well as some of the aspects of campus culture and organizational structure that enabled the most successful collaborations.

Publication:

• Roger C. Schonfeld, “The Visual Resources Environment at Liberal Arts Colleges,” NITLE Transformations, April 3, 2006.

Presentations:

• Roger C. Schonfeld, presentation on a panel entitled "Digital Images at Liberal Arts Colleges: Two Research Studies from 2006," NITLE Symposium on "Managing Digital Collections," Smith College, Northampton, MA, March 12, 2007.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, “The Visual Resources Environment at Liberal Arts Colleges: Administrative Structure and Organizational Culture,” CLIR CIOs Meeting, Washington, DC, May 15, 2006.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, “Observations from the ARTstor Liberal Arts College Hosting Assessment: Image Use and Support,” NITLE/ACSTC Symposium: Strategic Planning for Digital Assets Management, Atlanta, December 2, 2005.
• Roger C. Schonfeld, “Observations on the ARTstor Liberal Arts Hosting Assessment,” Digital Images Seminar, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education – Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury, Vermont, May 3, 2005.